Developments of electric cars and fuel cell hydrogen electric cars

The world continues to strive in the search for clean power sources to run the millions of different vehicles on the road on daily basis as they are the main contributors to toxic emissions releases from internal combustion engines to the atmosphere. These toxic emissions contribute to climate change and air pollution and impact negatively on people's health. Fuel cell devices are gradually replacing the internal combustion engines in the transport industry. Some notable challenges of the PEMFC technology are discussed in this paper. High costs, low durability and hydrogen storage problems are some of the major obstacles being examined in this investigation. The paper explores the latest advances in electric cars technology and their design specifications. The study also compares the characteristics and the technologies of the three types of electric cars now available in the market.interna

robust control of a switched reluctance machine intended for electrical vehicle Propulsion.

Le moteur à réluctance variable (MRV) est en train de gagner beaucoup d'intérêt dans les applications de traction électrique grâce à la compatibilité significative entre ses caractéristiques naturelles et les exigences de l'industrie automobile. Cependant, à cause de la caractéristique fortement non linéaire des grandeurs électromagnétiques du MRV, l'usure du moteur, les variations paramétriques dues aux tolérances de fabrication, et la dérive des paramètres durant le fonctionnement, les stratégies de commande classique ne permettent pas d'assurer des hautes performances de suivi de trajectoire et de robustesse en stabilité dans l'environnement de fonctionnement d'un véhicule électrique. Dans ce contexte, le premier objectif de cette thèse est de proposer des stratégies de commande robustes du MRV en prenant en considération les contraintes imposées par les applications de traction. Afin d'atteindre cet objectif, une structure de commande en cascade, composée d'une boucle externe de vitesse et d'une boucle interne de courant, est envisagée. Les objectifs de synthèse sont ensuite fixés à travers un cahier des charges formulé en termes de gabarits fréquentiels, et les correcteurs robustes et adaptatifs de vitesse et de courant sont ainsi synthétisés en se basant sur les approches de commande H-infini et LPV/H- infini. La faisabilité des correcteurs constitue également un critère important dans les applications de traction électrique où la puissance de calcul embarqué dans le véhicule est très limitée. Ce critère est pris en considération dans cette thèse à travers l'utilisation des approches de synthèse des correcteurs H- infini d'ordre fixe. Les performances de ces correcteurs sont analysées et comparées avec les performances des correcteurs H- infini classiques à travers une étude par la μ-analyse de la robustesse en stabilité et une évaluation expérimentale. Le deuxième objectif de ces travaux de thèse est d'évaluer l'intérêt de la commande sans capteurs mécanique du MRV en se basant sur des méthodes d'estimation. Des observateurs robustes basés sur les modes glissants et le filtrage de Kalman sont ainsi synthétisés. Les performances et la robustesse de ces observateurs sont ensuite comparées expérimentalement dans une perspective d'une application de traction électrique.The switched reluctance motor (SRM) is gaining much interest in electric vehicle applications. It includes robustness to harsh operational conditions, rugged structure, fault tolerant operation and a wide range of speed. However, due to the highly nonlinear electromagnetic characteristic, wear and tear of motor, manufacturing tolerances and parameters drift during operation, classical control strategies do not ensure high dynamical performance and robustness under various operating conditions in electric vehicle environment. In this context, the first purpose of this thesis is to propose robust control strategies of the SRM taking into account the constraints imposed by electric vehicle applications. To achieve this objective, a cascade control scheme is adopted; it consists of an outer speed loop and an inner current loop. Controllers design aims are fixed through specifications formulated in frequency domain, robust and adaptive controllers of speed and currents are thus synthesized based on H- infini and LPV/H- infini control approaches. Feasibility of these controllers is also an important criterion in electric vehicles applications where embedded computing power is very limited. This criterion is taken into account in this thesis by using fixed order controller synthesis approaches. The performances of these controllers are analyzed and compared with the performances of standard H- infini controllers through an experimental evaluation and a robustness analysis is performed using the concept of the Singular Structured Value, i.e. the μ-analysis. The second objective of this thesis is to assess the interest of the sensorless control of SRM. Robust observers based on second order sliding mode (SMO2) and Kalman filtering techniques (EKF) are designed to estimate the mechanical states of SRM. Performances and robustness of these observers are then compared experimentally in perspective of electric vehicle application

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From Offline to Adaptive Online Energy Management Strategy of Hybrid Vehicle using Pontryagin's Minimum Principle

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Hierarchical and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Control for Intelligent Energy Management in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

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Fixed structure H-inf loop shaping control of switched reluctance motor for electrical vehicle

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Robust LPV current control of Switched Reluctance Motors

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Experimental Sensorless Control of Switched Reluctance Motor for Electrical Powertrain System

In this paper a mechanical sensorless control of Switched Reluctance Motors (SRMs) scheme of an electric vehicle (EV) powertrain is presented. The aim is to develop a soft sensors implementation for position and speed measurements of SRM. This contribution is focused on an extended Kalman filter and a sliding mode observer. The proposed observers are designed to generate speed and position estimations with the purpose of achieving highly robust speed control. The performances of these two observers are assessed and their robustness are analyzed. The design also includes a robustness analysis of the proposed mechanical sensorless control scheme under conditions which take the parameter variations and the load torque into account. To carry out this work, experiments are highlighted on an experimental test bench of 8/6 Switched Reluctance Motor prototype.</jats:p